Increasing number of internet scams is a big concern especially for Social Networking Monster Facebook. Though security tips are provided in help but basic internet users rarely visit that. Facebook has made this job easy by releasing its first official security guide in form of eBook entitled “A Guide to Facebook Security“ for young adults, Parents and Educators co-written by – Linda McCarthy, Keith Watson, and Denise Weldon-Siviy

This 14 page online guide explains how you can:

• Protect your Facebook account

• Avoid the scammers

• Use advanced security settings

• Recover a hacked Facebook account

• Stop imposters

And little more tips for secure browsing

The Guide is written in Simple English aiming for a basic internet user to understand it easily, with little more tips of understand the Guide is in PDF format can be download from link below

As written in guide after completing reading you can Head over to the Facebook Security Page to take the Security Quiz so you too can test your knowledge and learn best practices for staying secure online.

Social Networking Monster Facebook has recently launched its much awaited “owesum” feature – Video Calling powered by Skype
To launch Video Calling Feature Facebook and Skype have made an agreement, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Skype CEO Tony Bates made announcement at the company’s Palo Alto, California Headquarters
Mark Zuckerberg also confirms that it now has 750 million users worldwide, Skype currently has 150 million users which will indirectly to be boosted by 750 million through this tie-up. This one-on-one Video calling feature is directly available in Facebook Chat in over 70 different languages

to use Video Calling user must be equipped with a webcam, this feature will be available to everyone in the next few weeks, but if you don’t want to wait just login to http://www.facebook.com/videocalling and start video calling right now

Another feature – Multi-Person Chat to be available soon, in this multiple users can be added in a conversation for group chat

Facebooking is incomplete without the sharing of photos, it is very easy and most likely for users to share photo albums in Facebook. But the problem comes when there is a need to download a Set of Images (Complete Album) from it, whether it’s your own or your Friends Album, getting on every single photo & using old right click and save technique is very irritating and complete waste of time specially if in case the images are in bulk

Web Application
One can download entire facebook album & tagged photos in just a few click using a web application called picknzipit’s a free web application which work on all Web Browser (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc.) just visit the web page www.picknzip.com and click “Login with Facebook” a pop-up will appear, allow your profile access to picknzip & you can download all your & your friends album with just a click either in PDF or in ZIP format

Firefox Extension
Another Good Option to do this very easily is using “Firefox” & its extension called “FacePAD” it’s a Free Firefox Extension published by Arthur Sabintsev, merely 9kb in size and runs on all current windows Operating System. Using FacePAD one can download complete album with just a Single Click. The installation process is same as of other firefox extensions, so after installing FacePAD next time when you open your facebook account you just need to right click on the Album and you will see option “Download Album with FacePAD” just click that and the whole album will be downloaded into your computer in JPG Format (in your default firefox download directory eg: C:\Users\Username\Downloads)
Right Click on Album & Select “Download Album with FacePAD”

Facebook recently upgraded its photo viewer with lightbox effect i.e. when you click on a Photo it opens in the same windows in a black box (which doesn’t look so good, as it doesn’t give the feel of Facebook we are used to) . It comes with the option of (i) previous & next button onto left & right side, (ii) like and comment on bottom & (iii) close button on top right for only that particular small window. So when you press close button you will get back to previous Facebook (Home Page). This is really nice & useful but still seems unlike for many users

So, If you want to get view photos in old style than click on the photo from wall & just press refresh button or F5 Key (shortcut to refresh) this will take you back to old Photo View,

Or the other way is right click on the photo and select “Open in New Tab” option

We all know how important Facebook is now part of our lifestyle. We update Facebook more often than sipping water. We share photos, personal information, status, thoughts and almost every moment on Facebook with our family & friends…..but sometime we don’t know who all can have access to the moments we really don’t wanna share with them. Everyone knows we can’t stop facebooking even though we have risk of sharing information with strangers across the world

Q: How can we avoid being so vulnerable to these hazards???

A: Facebook has Comprehensive Security features to help us………….but we never looked at that part which is most important.

One can secure its Facebook Account from unknown threat by applying few simple steps

Facebook profile has 4 Main Parts

Wall, Profile (Info), Photos, Friends

1) Wall is where we update our status, get comments on it and also our friends make post on it

2) Info is where we share what we are, Education, Working Exp., Email, Phone Number, Other Contact details, Views and much more

3) Photo: Uploaded Album from PC and Mobile Devices, Profile Photos, also Videos

4) Friends: List of Our Friends

You can set security to each of them as per need

The most important part is to protect Photos & Contact Details, you can do this very quickly from the following steps

Privacy Settings

Go to the “Privacy Settings” from “Account” at top right corner in Facebook

And in the “Sharing of Facebook” section select either “Friends Only” (Highly Recommended) or “Friends of Friends” and click on “Apply These Settings” button. The “Recommended” settings is selected by default but this will make your status, photos, posts etc. visible to everyone on Facebook so I say its not recommended

You can also make different settings for each option by clicking on “Customize Settings” option

read each option and by just using little common sense select it as per your like from button on rightThese all privacy setting is of what you Share in your Profile

Let’s take a look at Visibility of Profile

Another Security feature is it allows to hide yourself from getting searched by unknowns or stop Receiving Friends Request or Message and much more.

You can do this by follow these steps
Go to the “Privacy Settings” from “Account” at top right corner in Facebook and in “Connecting on Facebook” click “View Settings”

You will get a list of all setting, from its right select “Everyone”, “Friends of Friends” or “Friends Only” to each one by one as per your like

After making setting you can click on “Preview My Profile” to take a look on how your profile will be visible to others

Note : Here Facebook uses autosave function, which means just make any setting as per your like and it will be autosaved so here there is no need to press any save button

This is End of 1st Part which covered overall security settings and visibility for profile, Also read the 2nd Part which cover settings for each status, photos & albums

Setting Visibility Option for Wall Photo, Status & Album in Facebook

Wall

Whenever we share a Photo or write a status in our Facebook Wall we get a visibility option (that are – Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends Only, Customize) only for that particular thing, we can set this as per requirement by clicking on the Lock Image next to Share button

Album

The same four visibility options can be set for Whole Photo Album too which has been uploaded in your profile (for example: if in case your account security is for set as “Friends Only” and you like to share it will only few selected friends or with everyone on Facebook)

Step 1
Click on “Photos” & than go to “Album” you want to make settings

Step 2
In album scroll at the bottom of page, you will find “Edit Album Info” select it

Step 3
In the Privacy select settings as per your needEveryone, Friends of Friends, Friends Only or Customize

In case of sharing with only specific people
select “Customize”
than in new window in “Make this visible to” box select “Specific People” option

and in the box below type the name or starting letter of your friends (soon you’ll get suggestions) select as many friends as you want and click on “Save Settings”

there is also vice versa option i.e. to hide it from specific people and visible to all others instead of visible to specific people to do the setting just type that particular name/names in the box below the option saying “Hide this from”

World’s biggest Social Networking site Facebook has today launched its New Messaging System i.e. Facebook’s Personal Email (eg : yourname@facebook.com), Texts, chat and email together in one simple conversation, New Email System not only can be use to send and receive email messages but has many interesting features. You can upgrade your account to new messaging system by following these simple steps:

Received an email this morning from PayPal, this can cause headache for Indian PayPal Users (Specially Freelancer, Merchants who are fully depended on Paypal), According to which PayPal Indian users cannot use their account balance for purchase of any Goods or Services and balance needs to be transferred into Indian Bank Account within 7 days from date of receiving it, this means you can only make purchase by Credit Card linked into PayPal.
All this has happens because of new rules made by Reserve Bank of India (RBI)